From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 9 20:27:50 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBC28106567B; Mon, 9 Feb 2009 20:27:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from mta3.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta3.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.4.198]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFB008FC19; Mon, 9 Feb 2009 20:27:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from flosoft.no-ip.biz (ool-435559b8.dyn.optonline.net [67.85.89.184]) by mta3.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTP id <0KET00KDZFI7TLK0@mta3.srv.hcvlny.cv.net>; Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:27:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from flosoft.no-ip.biz (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by flosoft.no-ip.biz (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n19KRgxi001528; Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:27:43 -0500 Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:27:42 -0500 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" In-reply-to: <20090209192830.6186C1CC0B@ptavv.es.net> To: Kevin Oberman Message-id: <499091BE.3090503@gmail.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <20090209192830.6186C1CC0B@ptavv.es.net> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090202) Cc: "Eric L. Chen" , Joe Marcus Clarke , freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot umount ntfs-3g without root prvilege. X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:27:51 -0000 Kevin Oberman wrote: >> Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:18:41 -0500 >> From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" >> >> Kevin Oberman wrote: >> >>>> Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:50:50 -0500 >>>> From: Joe Marcus Clarke >>>> Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org >>>> >>>> Eric L. Chen wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I followed http://www.freebsd.org/gnome, try to mount usb disk (ntfs >>>>> formatted). >>>>> It can be mounted, but cannot umount. >>>>> We need ntfs usb disk for large file, since fat cannot support file that >>>>> greater than 2GiB. >>>>> BTW, I am using ntfs-3g for NTFS read/write support. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Have you followed the instructions in >>>> /usr/local/share/docs/hal-0.5.11/README.fuse? >>>> >>>> Joe >>>> >>>> >>> I that method really better then a symlink from /sbin/mount_ntfs to >>> /usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g? That seems to work for me, although I have not >>> tested much. >>> >>> >> The instructions in the readme are the best way... the patch is very >> well tested and designed to be fairly idiot proof (I was one of the >> idiots it needed to be proofed against) >> > > Aryeh, > > Thanks! I'll go that way since I don't think the world need more idiots > today. (Then again, I may well already qualify.) > There is only one sticking point if you use straight csup to update you will need to reapply the patch every time you update /usr/src.... if this is an issue I suggest you keep a private cvs repo as described in development(7) [you will most likely just want to use the /usr/src2 example and rename it /usr/src]